🇺🇸 Trump to host oil executives after accusing refiners of gouging consumers

President Donald Trump has accused U.S. oil refiners of gouging Americans, called for a Justice Department investigation ​and urged companies to use their bumper earnings to bring down gasoline prices. On Tuesday, he is expected to ‌host many of those companies at the White House to celebrate efforts to keep the market well supplied in hopes of managing gasoline prices currently averaging over $4 a gallon.

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💰🤑 All the money on Stellar?

"We're starting from a strong place: $4 billion in RWAs. When competition heats up, so do we 🏎 ," — Stellar wrote.

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🇷🇺🏦 Russia's largest bank forecasts $46 billion in first-year crypto exchange trading under new rules

Sberbank, Russia's largest lender, said the country's regulated crypto trading volume on exchanges may reach 4 trillion rubles ($46.4 billion) in the first year after crypto laws take effect on Sept. 1.

Anatoly Popov, Sberbank's deputy chairman, said that such crypto trading volume could grow to roughly 7.5 trillion rubles ($87.1 billion) by 2029.

❗️Popov said the bank plans to issue loans secured by bitcoin, ether and USDT once they are approved by the central bank.

"We prepared for this in advance, and we already have practical experience working with cryptocurrency. As soon as the law comes into full force, we will adapt Sber’s existing products to the new requirements and begin consistently expanding their lineup," — said Popov.

"We will be able to expand the list immediately after all provisions of the new regulation come into force." 🚀

The bank reportedly plans to launch a crypto wallet in its Sber and Sber Investments apps alongside a digital asset depository by early December.

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🧑‍⚖️ FTC sues Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of misleading advertisers

The FЕС sued Amazon, alleging the e-commerce giant “secretly and systematically overcharged” advertisers on its platform by manipulating its pricing and auction systems. The lawsuit, which was joined by 22 state attorneys general, argues that Amazon may have reaped more than $20 billion from advertisers by using “hidden surcharges” dating back to a change to its auction rules that took effect in 2019.

“Amazon has millions of advertising customers who were misled into paying significantly higher prices,” — FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said. “These higher costs were largely passed on to American consumers.”

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🏆🇺🇸 Scott Bessent: "Economic growth is again the north star of our policies at home and our leadership on the world stage."

Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, we are getting the G20 back to basics by restoring the purpose for which it was founded.

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🇪🇺 ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox Face Tighter EU Content Moderation Rules

ChatGPT, Reddit Inc. and video game company Roblox Corp. will face stricter European Union scrutiny after surpassing a threshold of 45 million monthly users in the bloc. OpenAI’s chatbot was designated a very large online search engine, while social network platform Reddit and Roblox were labeled very large online platforms under the Digital Services Act.

Following the notification of the designations, these services have four months, i.e. by January 2027, to comply with the additional DSA obligations for VLOPs and VLOSEs, such as assessing and mitigating the systemic risks stemming from their service and algorithmic systems related to:

the dissemination of illegal content, the negative effects on minors, users’ physical and mental well-being, fundamental rights, electoral processes and public security.

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🇹🇷💫 NASA Welcomes Türkiye as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory

During a ceremony hosted by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, the Republic of Türkiye signed the Artemis Accords, joining the growing international coalition of like-minded nations dedicated to peaceful, transparent space exploration.

“It is my privilege to welcome the Republic of Türkiye as the 71st signatory of the Artemis Accords,” — said Isaacman.

Türkiye will soon launch its first lunar mission, AYAP-1, joining the small but growing group of countries building and launching their own satellites to the Moon. 🚀

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🤑 Ripple and SettleMint partner to provide digital asset custody and tokenization for financial institutions in Asia Pacific

Ripple and SettleMint, a global leader in Digital Asset Lifecycle Management, have announced a strategic partnership offering regulated financial institutions a unified solution to custody, issue, and manage tokenized assets across their full lifecycle.

❗️The partnership integrates Ripple Custody and SettleMint’s DALP (Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform). Ripple and SettleMint have already commenced their partnership offering in Asia and plan to extend this to other markets as institutional demand develops.

The integration of digital assets and tokenized financial products has become essential for the future of banking and the traditional financial sector. In Boston Consulting Group's report, "The Future of Digital Assets," published in May 2026, the firm identifies the shift toward digital assets as a fundamental restructuring of financial infrastructure, projecting that tokenized RWAs could reach $88 trillion by 2035. 💸

"Global capital markets are moving fully on-chain, and that shift only works when digital asset custody and lifecycle management operate as one system rather than two," — said Adam Popat, CEO of SettleMint.

"Combining Ripple Custody and DALP gives institutions that single foundation, and this partnership lets us bring it to regulated markets globally." 🤝

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🇺🇸📱 X Money is now available to all Premium and Premium+ subscribers with U.S. accounts

The payment service began its gradual rollout back in July, but access has still not been available to all users.

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🏦 Citi, Goldman, other global banks and asset managers team up on stablecoin venture

A group of 21 financial institutions, including Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs and UBS, plans to form a company that will issue stablecoins for payments and digital asset transactions. The company, which is yet to be named, is expected to be established in the second half of the year, subject to closing conditions.

❗️The venture plans to start with a U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoin and bring the product to market in the first half of 2027. It aims to add stablecoins tied to other Group of Seven currencies later, with a euro-denominated token being a priority.

The project grew from an initiative announced in October 2025, when 10 banks said they were exploring a digital payment asset backed one-for-one by reserves and available on public blockchains.

Participants now span North America, Europe, East Asia, the Middle East and Africa. They include Wells Fargo, Deutsche Bank, Santander, Fidelity Investments, MUFG Bank and Standard Bank, alongside other banks and investment firms.

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🧑‍⚖️ California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

California’s legislature has passed Assembly Bill 1856, exempting open-source operating systems from the State’s Digital Age Assurance Act months before the law is due to take effect on January 1, 2027. The Senate amended the Bill on August 21 before passing it on the 26th in a 39-0 vote, with the Assembly then accepting these changes in a concurrence vote the following day.

The amendment ends almost a year of uncertainty surrounding whether Linux distributions and SteamOS would be forced to collect user age data during account setup alongside Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. AB 1856 has now been sent to Governor Gavin Newsom, who signed the original act into law last October.

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💊 ChatGPT Health adds Epic integration for clinicians to import patient data

OpenAI is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system, which holds data for over 325 million patients, to let clinicians import patient data and use AI to ask questions. The company said that in certain systems, it will also integrate ChatGPT directly within EHR workflows.

With ChatGPT, clinicians can now access information like appointment notes, laboratory results, medications, and specialist documentation and summarize them easily. They can also look at patient history, identify changes, and prepare for future appointments.

OpenAI said that in some deployments, clinicians can directly access ChatGPT for getting pre-visit review and building clinical timelines without leaving a patient chart. The company specified that the integration allows only read-only access to health records, and AI doesn’t write anything back.

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🇺🇸 Florida Bans Flock Cameras, License Plate Readers From State Roads

The Florida Department of Transportation revoked all permits for local law-enforcement agencies to operate license-plate reader systems, ordering any that have been installed removed from state roadways within 30 days.

The department said in a memo that use of the devices had seen an exponential increase, and that “concerning reports of misuse, data privacy concerns, and surveillance schemes merit immediate action to preserve Floridians’ sovereignty and quality of life.”

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🤖 Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1.

They’re the world’s most advanced models for coding and knowledge work — and their research capabilities offer an early glimpse of how AI models will contribute to scientific progress.

Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 are the same model, but with different levels of safeguards. Fable 5.1 is generally available, while Mythos 5.1 is available only through our trusted access programs; its safeguards are specifically designed to support work in cybersecurity and the life sciences.

Fable 5.1 can now be used to discover software vulnerabilities — though not to develop exploits for them. In biology, Anthropic has established an access program, developed in partnership with the US government, to enable access to Claude Mythos 5.1’s advanced biology capabilities.

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump:

WE ARE THE WORLD’S BIGGEST AND BEST ECONOMY, and we are keeping it that way.

Other Countries should follow our lead, and cut Taxes, Regulations and, where possible, DRILL BABY DRILL. GROWTH, GROWTH, GROWTH.

We are leading the way, and the World is watching!

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⚡️💫 NASA Selects Blue Origin as Mars Telecommunications Network Provider

NASA has awarded Blue Origin a contract worth up to $700 million to develop the Mars Telecommunications Network, including a high-performance communications orbiter to support future Mars missions by Dec. 31, 2028.

Blue Origin will design, develop, integrate, launch, and operate the network as a part of the agency’s broader space communications and navigation infrastructure. The architecture will consist of a high-performance telecommunications spacecraft orbiting Mars, transmitting science data, imagery, navigation information, and critical mission communications for spacecraft operating on and around the planet.

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🌐 G20 Signals Support for Digital Assets and Responsible Innovation

There’s a notable nod to digital assets in the G20 Chair’s Statement released by Scott Bessent, with finance ministers and central bank governors from the 20 largest economies recognizing the potential of digital assets to support economic growth and committing to create “clear pathways” for responsible innovation. 🚀

The statement also calls for improvements to cross-border payments, including keeping the systems banks and central banks use to move large or time-sensitive payments open longer, encouraging wider use of ISO 20022 (a common global messaging standard used by banks), and making it easier to transmit financial services data across borders.

The group is also awaiting findings from the Financial Stability Board on the cross-border implications of global stablecoins.

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🤑🤑 Firelight raises $8 million, expands beyond XRP as it aims to make DeFi less scary for fintechs

Firelight Protocol raised $8 million to build an onchain protection layer for DeFi with plans to expand the assets backing its cover system beyond XRP to BTC and Stellar's XLM. Firelight, which was incubated by Sentora, plans to launch the protocol and its first cover integrations in September.

❗️The project is tackling a problem that has become more pressing as fintechs and other mainstream financial firms experiment with onchain yield: DeFi can offer attractive returns, but a single smart-contract exploit can wipe out customer funds, while traditional insurance can take months to pay. Firelight is trying to bridge that gap with dedicated cover capital and a claims process designed to settle eligible losses in about 10 days.

“This isn’t built for degens,” — he said. “This is built to bring the next wave of capital in. We want to be that protection layer to allow that adoption.”

DeMartino said he expects more money currently sitting in bank accounts to migrate into fintech earn products powered by stablecoins, onchain vaults and wallets. 🚀

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